Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 27 December 2084 at 09:07.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2085 after 13 days on 10 January 2085 at 22:42.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1051 of Meeus index or 2004 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 1 minute and it is 34 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2084. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 25 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠345.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠0.9°.
Moon is at perigee at 05:57 about 12 days since last apogee on 15 December 2084 at 20:52 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next apogee on 12 January 2085 at 05:03 in ♌ Leo.
This perigee Moon is 358 219 km (222 587 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 289 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 137 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
1 day after ascending node on 27 December 2084 at 16:18 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 10 January 2085 at 01:55 in ♋ Cancer.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 26 December 2084 at 05:43 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.910° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.917° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 January 2085 at 06:01 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 10 January 2085 at 22:42 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov